Dear Friends of CAN,

I hope you are enjoying the spring weather! Please join us this spring for spiritually and mentally invigorating events and campaigns.

* Women Led Prayer is Saturday, March 20th at 11 am at CTSA (1077 S Newstead). All are Welcome to join us!

* Sunday, March 21, Angie O'Gorman will host a book signing for her recently published novel, The Book of Sins, from 4:00 till 6:00 PM at CTSA. "The Book of Sins" is available from CAN and Angie for $18.95 today.

* Promo Lobby Day is Wednesday, March 24th. Support PROMO's priority proactive legislation, the Missouri Nondiscrimination Act. MONA would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in house, employment, and access to public accommodation. Register to attend by calling 314.862.4900 or go to http://www.promoonline.org

* People's Settlement: Stand Up and Stand Together Against Corporate America!

March 24th, 3 p.m. at Kiener Plaza till Monday, March 29th. Join us for a 3 hour shift in Kiener Plaza.

Frustrated with Corporate Control of Politics? Angry over unjust Housing Foreclosures? Big Bank Bailouts? Continuous War? No Change?

All of us are working on issues from local control to clean energy to peace to jobs to healthcare and everything in between. We have been working separately for too long and we need to stand up and stand together on a united front! Many of us have worked hard on political campaigns and activist campaigns attempting to get legislators to listen to us. However, we feel the real issue is corporate power that is dividing us on every issue and blocking us from affecting real change from political figures.

That is why a group of us have decided us to take the power back and come together on a broad based front, united against a common threat. Join us at the People's Settlement, a week of action dedicated to focusing on various corporations in the downtown area; from Bank of America's bailouts to Peabody Coal's unethical energy to the prison industrial complex to Anthem's blocking of real healthcare reform.

* Economic Literacy and Building Solidarity Alternatives in a Time of Crisis Workshop: The St. Louis Justice and Peace Shares (www.jps-stl.org) in collaboration with the Center for Popular Economics will offer a two-day workshop designed to equip local activists to explain the roots of the current economic crisis and to design alternative economic projects. DATES: Thursday April 22 and Friday April 23 TIMES: 9 AM to 5 PM each day PLACE: TBA COSTS: $100 includes lunches (subsidies available) To register initial interest in participating please reply by e-mail staff@jps-stl.org or call 314-725-5303 by March 19



More information available at www.catholicactionnetwork.org.

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Peace,
Megan Heeney

Catholic Action Network
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